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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Monday, October 28, 2013

American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents put their teens on media diets

The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending
that parents limit their teens’ access to all media (including television,
Internet and cell phone use) to two hours a day. Previously, the AAP had recommended that
children under two not see any television at all because of the possibility of
developmental disruption caused by fast-moving images. Online homework would
not be included in the two hours.

It seems that when I was in high school, on week
nights, that’s about what I did. I think
I often watched the news, and sometimes one program. But homework – those term papers written on
the kitchen table – took a lot of time.

WJLA has a link to the story here.The rather strongly worded AAP statement
ishere.

I think you can play devil’s advocate with this
recommendation. Some kids become
prodigies and use media to do so. Do you
want to stop the high school student who plays musical instruments, acts in
plays, and also knows how to edit music and film – you actually need “media” to
support feedback into ‘real world” activities.
One techie who came by from Geek Squad to fix a desktop computer at the
end of 2008 said that he had learned to code java at the age of 12.

What seems to matter is whether teens get “real
world” social and practical interaction and accomplishment. What should matter is not how many Facebook
friends you can count, but how many in the real world you can count on.

Yet, below the top of the line, misuse of media by
kids, is, of course, rampant.

As someone who uses media all the time as a single adult, I sometimes "LOL" at the idea of a "family computer" in a public area of a house. And I wonder how long I can sustain myself.

How does a parent who works in media handle
this? It strikes me that it would be
hard to be a journalist and raise a family, because the latter activity goes
against being “objective”.

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